It's been a busy week but the most activity came when a 4 wheeler arrived stating that there was a fire in our cabin in the woods. We reported it to the RCMP who are mandated to send in the fire dept. Lo and behold 2 fire trucks arrive and promptly get stuck in our driveway. Had it been a fire in one of our main buildings we would have been toast, quite literally. How it started is a mystery, we are just thankful it was not on the farm.
Roy has decided to stay with us for the next while and we'll raise some pigs in the woods over the summer. We've got lots of projects lined up; building a straw bale cabin; an earth oven; a smoke house (to cure some of that delicious pork in the fall ) an area to hold ice blocks for summer cooling use, and lots of other fun stuff. We will perfect our thermosyphoning unit so that this summers cottage guests can use the out door shower and really feel at one with the earth sun and sky! So keep tuned.
It's easter morning and we feasted last night on one of my beautiful heritage turkeys. Roy and I shared chef duties and ended up with an amazing menu. Stuffed mushrooms, chicken satay and devilled eggs ( just for Vicky who is up for the weekend from Halifax) We then followed with the turkey, roast potatoes, braised cabbage with apple, stuffing and of course lashings of gravy. Topping this orgy of slow food and I do mean slow food as we started eating at 6pm and finished at about 10.30pm we did play a game of tock between courses and ended up with apple crumble. We all waddled off to bed most certainly satiated.
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1 comment:
Hi everyone, Roy great way to transport the piglets.About the fire, did you check if there was a water puddle on top of the canvas? The sun is very well able to use its power as a magnify glass and start the fire. Clear water puddles off plastic, canvas and the like to prevent the sun to start the fire.It happened to us one year when water accumulated on top of a plastic coldframe that held our black peatmoss. It smoldered for days!
Phyllis.
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